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Police Kill Suspect; Occupy SF Activists Falsely Linked
Once again, the media have stumbled upon a case of law enforcement malfeasance, printed the police's official line and falsely insinuated that Occupy was somehow involved in a killing.
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Election Countdown 2012: Obama’s Hostility to Marijuana Reform May Jeopardize His Re-Election, and More
In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: Obama could be jeopardizing his re-election bid with a dismissive and even hostile approach to marijuana reform, Elizabeth Warren is being considered as …
Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the Ship?
Billions of dollars were skimmed from cities all across America by colluding to rig the public bids on municipal bonds, a business worth $3.7 trillion.
“Seconds Away From Midnight”: US Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break 50-Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962
Six months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, a parallel drama had played out on the other side of the world as the U.S. secretly brought near-identical missiles …
Border Posts Fall Into the Hands of Syrian Rebels
Rebel fighters seized all four border crossings with Iraq and one into Turkey, while also claiming for the first time to have captured a pocket of Damascus after intense …
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Review of Henry Giroux’s Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability
What are the limitations and possibilities for reclaiming democracy as a radical idea amid the ruins of neoliberalism? This is the fundamental question posed by Henry Giroux's important new …
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Migration and Racism: A Southern European Perspective
The Mediterranean has become a hotbed of human trafficking and carnage resulting from desperate attempts by people from Africa and most particularly sub-Saharan and North Africa to flee famine, …
Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?
That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media - even in times of economic downturn - is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the …
Mass Protests Against Mexican Election Results
Student movement takes to the streets to reject what they call election fraud.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Half-Million Eligible Voters Will Find It Virtually Impossible to Get the Necessary ID to Be Able to Vote in November, and More
A new study by the Brennan Center for Justice reveals just how damaging Republican-backed Voter Suppression ID laws will be to hundreds of thousands of Americans.